How is OpenLabyrinth different from a wiki?

We use linked pages and wikiref-style shortcodes to call and link various objects in the platform, just like a wiki.

However, learners/readers are not automatically conferred with editing capabilities, which is different from a wiki.

OLab structures provide a greater ability to constrain how the user navigates a given pathway. These pathways can be made wide open (wiki style), or linear, or with lots of complex branching paths in the decision tree.

The Visual Editor in OLab is well received by our authors as a simple means of drawing out and designing their decision trees. Learning design is accelerated by the use of pre-defined templates which can be dropped into a map.

Path navigation can also be controlled by the author, using conditional logic, counters/variables and rules. So exceptions can be programmed into the pathways. Depending on user choices and responses, you can jump them to a whole new area/page in the map.

All actions in OLab are tracked: clicks, question responses, pathway choices, timestamps for everything, along with counters/scores (variables for tracking performance etc)

This activity tracking is done internally into a MySQL database, but can also be sent as xAPI statements to a Learning Record Store.